I've become enamored with my shammy as of late. I went through the process of gearing my enhancement shaman for heroics to meet that 329 number.

I found it to be relatively easy and I felt that other people might be doing the same. Hopefully this helps a little. Please let me know if you have any disagreements/additions. Thanks for reading.

Preface: While some of you may have justice points laying around, this guide assumes that you are starting from scratch. This guide relies on quests (both world and dungeon), worthwhile AH purchases, reputation rewards, and craftables. I will not supply PvP gear options. I readily admit that some PvP options are more viable than what I will supply below; however, I am trying to limit the amount of gold being spent on what most likely will be an alt.

While the secondary stats on it are sub optimal (lacking much needed hit, expertise or mastery), it has a meta, yellow socket with a fantastic socket bonus. This may take a few days to grind out to revered since the quests leave you at Honored but it's a nice starter piece. (ilvl 346)

If you decided to level through Vash instead of Hyjal and WANT MY HEROICS NAO, here are two necks that can help out (ilvl 346). These won't be cheap though. Spending two hours in Hyjal should get you to revered.

Try to save the Lifebinder? Check. Slay mean purple dragons? Check. Get up close and personal with Deathwing? Check. Get rewarded with a ilvl 333 neck? Check. If you skipped Hyjal, this is a decent option as a placeholder until you get one of the above.

I know I said that I would try to limit the amount of gold spent but this is my one exception. The mats are generally cheap. There are only 2 other 359 ilvl belts in the game. One is a random drop from ToT4W and one from Cho'gall. If this is a semi serious alt or new main, this belt is well worth the cost.

These are perfectly itemized for a shaman. Some hit, some mastery, yellow socket with agility bonus. Questing through the entire Mt. Hyjal leaves you a couple thousand rep into Revered assuming you have some guild bonuses. These are the boots you should aim for. You probably won't be able to get them right off the bat but keep chipping away at Mt. Hyjal rep.

Enh shamans receiving some love from their fellow shaman bretheren. Loads of agility. Loads of mastery. Subpar haste but something you can reforge into hit/expertise if needed. Did I mention it was an epic? Yes, it's an epic.

Mastery bonus and a good amount of it. I'm not crazy about the on use effect since I like procs but we can't be picky here. ilvl 318.

Crafting Professions:

I'm not going to link each trinket for crafting profession. Chances are you already know about it. If your an alchemist, you get a fabulous agility trinket with mastery come 4.06. JC, congrats on your 346 trinket. Engineering has one they can use to bump up their gear score too.

Tol Barad Trinkets

Yes, there is a nice 359 trinket that is a mastery increase with an agility use. I am not listing it because by the time you become exalted with your respective faction, you'll be well into heroics with some possible replacements already for what I've listed above.

Weapons

I'm well aware there are some raid trash BoE epics that would suit a shaman quite well. If you have 10-20k of gold sitting around and feel like pimping your shaman, go for it. I won't tell you how to spend your money. I'm also avoiding the Blacksmithing Maces. The mats for these are flat out ridiculous and will end up costing you 6000g for a 346 ilvl weapon.

What better way to kill things than with your very own bejeweled brass knuckles? These things are cheap. 200g. If you see them for more, just buy one of each rare gem and take them to your JC friend to make them. Good stats. Red socket with a good socket bonus. 333 ilvl. You can equip these in your MH and OH.

Tol Bard has a 346 MH weapon that can be purchased at Revered and for 85 commendation badges. Chances are, if you're doing TB dailies, you're saving up for the trinkets first. By the time you have enough of these commendation badges saved up, you've either won some drops, have enough JP for purchases and the ilvl constraint is no longer holding you back from queuing in LFD.

Outside of these, the weapons drop off really quickly.

Relics

GG Blizz. Not a single 333 or 325 Relic in sight. It's either 346 or 318.

They aren't cheap and they aren't expensive. Somewhere in the range of 2,000g. I think it's worth it. Having leveled up to 85, you're usually sitting on 10,000g of disposable income. Knowing that you don't have to spend precious JP points on a stat stick is worth it in my opinion.

Good list, too bad it came after I spent a night doing a load of wowhead ilevel searches to come to the same conclusions, hehe.

I know the sticking point when I was trying to get 329 was the gloves. I spent a whole evening questing through TH just to get the Coulton's Crushers (on one of the very last quests in the zone, and requiring you to complete almost every questline before that) to finally hit that magic number.

I'm still wearing most of the items on your list - and I'm still on a 318 helm and bracers right now. All of my toons seem to struggle with good bracers (my tank has the Exalted rep option - on one of the hardest factions to grind. My Mage got lucky when I won a well-itemised BoE epic in BoT).

KysenMurrin wrote:Good list, too bad it came after I spent a night doing a load of wowhead ilevel searches to come to the same conclusions, hehe.

Sorry I couldn't get it sooner. I was able to skirt the issue due to some rep reward healing pieces which inflated my gear score. You could always throw this out the window with that argument and say "just buy healing gear you newb" but I wanted it to be a dps centric way of gearing your enhancement shamans.